On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:46 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
> But they don't look at Nikon/Canon/Sony at Walmart and then go looking > on-line for Pentax. I did. > > There's actually a couple of different things going on here from my point of > view. > > 1. People ain't gonna buy Pentax if they don't know Pentax exists. > > And without Pentax being in the stores, for far too many people Pentax does > *NOT* exist. Pentax needs more than just old fogies like us looking on > Amazon for the best deal on last year's discontinued model. At some point > too many of us won't be around any longer and not enough people will know > Pentax exists to keep the brand viable. > > When there's nobody left to buy Pentax cameras, there won't be any new > Pentax cameras. > > 2. I want certain things in a new camera. And I *DO* *WANT* a new camera (I > don't NEED a new camera, but I want one). Pentax doesn't offer anything that > even comes close to what I want. > > But, someone else does. Or at least they offer a camera that gives me a > whole lot of what I want, say 90%. > > The only real drawback is that none of my current lenses will fit it. > Replacing all that glass is going to be painful. But it's doable. > > How much longer does it make sense for me to wait to see if Pentax is ever > going to offer me a camera that comes close enough to what I want that I > should wait however much longer it will actually take to get one into my > hands. > > I'll make a little personal prediction here ... one year from today, either > Pentax will have introduced a Full-frame DSLR that's within close enough > shouting distance to the Nikon D600 or in 2014 I won't be shooting with > Pentax any longer. > > If so, I'll miss Pentax. I can't begin to say how much that's going to hurt. > > I hope I'll be able to console myself with a camera that gives me what I > want. > > Stop complaining and just switch already. Even if Pentax does release a full frame camera next year, it won't have enough megapixels, or the frame rate won't be high enough, or there won't be enough AF points, or AF will be too slow, or they won't have FF lenses with modern coatings, or any of a number of perceived faults that will give people a reason to bitch and moan about how far behind Pentax is. > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
